At Erbusco, in the heart of Franciacorta, homeland of refined sparkling wines, Maurizio Zanella's winery produces excellent still wines as well as excellent bubbles
Talking about Franciacorta means, first of all, talking about the extraordinary sparkling wines produced with the classic method, certainly to be considered among the excellence of bubbles in the world, “Franciacorta Metodo Classico”.
The creator of Ca' del Bosco's success is Maurizio Zanella, founder of the renowned Franciacorta's winery, whom with passion and attention for details was successful, and he is always successful, in creating great wines that are rightly and solidly placed since a very long time at the top of the quality production in the world. One of the main aims of Ca' del Bosco is certainly quality, a goal that the winery also achieves by means of researching and experimentation. In order to do that, the winery has a laboratory with specific equipment that are used for the proper verification and tests. Quality at Ca' del Bosco begins with the scrupulous selection of grapes harvested in the property vineyards, a process that can be done thanks to the help and experience of competent professionals.
The events of Maurizio Zanella, as well as those of Ca' del Bosco, are rather singular and surprising. He started making wine in a period when in Italy were mainly produced wines that could not be considered as bad, however they could not have any chance when compared to the wines of the country which already made of quality its peculiar characteristic: France. The choice of Maurizio Zanella about producing quality wines began after he traveled in France, in the beginning of the 1970's, precisely in Bourgogne, and at just 17 years old he was absolutely amazed by the French quality and truly disappointed by the Italian one. It was during that time when he decided his job would have been making great wines in the lands where he lived. A decision that surely took lots of courage, even because at those times his decision was not even understood by his Italian “colleagues” wine producers and, not to mention, he was considered, together with other few “pioneers” of the renaissance of Italian enology, as a visionary. Time proved Maurizio Zanella was right and within less than ten years his wines are already renowned in many countries of the world.
After about twenty years, the results achieved by Ca' del Bosco confirm he was absolutely right in being determined in his aims.